Western Creek

Information from  City of Ipswich Waterway Health Strategy, 2020

Western Creek sub-catchment headwaters arise in the Little Liverpool Range with about 90 per cent of the catchment within the Ipswich LGA. The sub-catchment includes the townships of Rosewood, Calvert and Grandchester.

The predominant land use is grazing, with minor instances of cropping and mining. Urban expansion is possible in the lower sub-catchment area.

The creek flows through a steep confined valley setting consisting of bushland before transitioning into a wider valley, in which the waterway meanders across the floodplain, before joining the Bremer River just upstream of Jeebropilly.

The Rosewood Wastewater treatment plant discharges via a series of lagoons and constructed wetlands into Western Creek, just before its confluence with the Bremer River.

The catchment contains threatened Box Gum Grassy Woodland ecological communities. which are listed as critically endangered in the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999.